Palatinate finish
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| Original title | Palatinate finish |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| year | 2015 |
| length | 30 minutes |
| Episodes | 6 in 1 season |
| genre | Dramedy |
| Director | Matthias Schmidt |
| idea | Markus B. Altmeyer |
| script | Markus B. Altmeyer |
| production | Günter Moritz, Monika Agler |
| camera | Moritz Reinecke |
| First broadcast | October 27, 2015 on SWR |
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Pälzisch im Abgang ( working title : Suddenly Apocalypse - The Last Days in the Palatinate ) is a six-part German dramedy that was shot in 2015. The miniseries ran from October 27 to December 1, 2015 every Tuesday on SWR television.
action
Bad Dürkheim in the Palatinate . Life is peaceful in the partly rural wine-growing idyll. Everyone has their "little problems" in the Fröhlich family, which is shaped by the life of winegrowers, for example the father Micky of the small family got into financial difficulties with his life coaching practice, his wife Katharina has fun with her childhood sweetheart Casino-Klaus, Basti, the son is unhappily in love with the Indian exchange student Sunita, and the cheeky daughter Natalie is planning a trip around the world on her own in order to escape the country life that she disgusts.
However, all of these family difficulties are seen in a completely new light when it becomes known that the asteroid Gisbert , contrary to initial calculations, will not just miss Earth, but will hit the European continent, which will mark the end of all known life on the planet Means, as the scientific prognosis says that the collision with the comet will pulverize the earth.
Gisbert's impact is predicted in five weeks. From now on, each individual protagonist begins in his own way to spend the remaining 35 days as comfortably as possible. Never, so the motto of the Palatinate depicted, will the courage to face life be lost, not even when the global end is at the door.
From now on, all action is subject to the Palatinate attitude to life “ wine, women and song ”, which, however, never disregards the seriousness of the impending event. The closer the time of the comet's impact approaches, the more serious and calm the protagonists become.
The Palatine End Times series does not only illuminate life in the small Palatinate town of Bad Dürkheim. The interested viewer discovers other events that are mentioned, for example, in the film plot in the news. For example, fictional television news reports that large parts of professional male sport have professed their homosexuality. Furthermore, the television news portrayed in the film shows that although world peace was not declared, global reports are being made that all acts of war between hostile states and regions have ceased.
The first and so far only season of the series closes by showing that all protagonists more or less find their own peace: with themselves, the family and the Palatinate. After initial quarrels, the grandfather is talking to his offspring again, Basti is reconciled with his sister, Klaus, who is serious, lives out his dream as a ballet dancer shortly before the end of the world and burns his wealth of cash in an open fire. Riesling-Rudi, who has not seen his daughter in the last 15 years and actually planned to spend the rest of his life in a bunker, tries one last phone call to have one last conversation with her. Finally, Natalie reconciles herself with her stalker by offering him her hand and asking what his first name is.
At the very last moment, when the Palatinate people embrace each other in the walls of the Limburg monastery and face the impending end of the world, Gisbert comes ominously close to the earth and races in the atmosphere over the heads of the protagonists. The action ends at this point. It remains unclear whether the asteroid will actually hit Earth.
Episode overview
- Episode 1: Surprise
- Episode 2: Displacement
- Episode 3: Hope
- Episode 4: Coronation
- Episode 5: wedding ceremony
- Episode 6: Destruction
Production notes
The series was produced by TeamWerk Die Filmproduktion (Stuttgart) on behalf of Südwestrundfunk. Filming began on June 23, 2015 and ended in early August of the same year. The film was shot in and around Bad Dürkheim as well as in a theater gallery in Neckartailfingen . The end-time series, produced in six parts, does not require any special effects .
First broadcast
Pälzisch im Abgang was broadcast on SWR for the first time on October 27, 2015. With 510,000 viewers, the start of the broadcast achieved a nationwide market share of 2.4% - a value that is well above the average market share of 1.8% that the SWR usually achieves. The SWR makes the multi-part available for direct viewing on its website .
background
The dramedy Pälzisch in Abgang was produced on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the SWR junior series Debut in the Third .
Mathias Schmidt, a film director from Delmenhorst , mentioned in an interview with the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, among other things, the special attraction that it was for him to make the special Palatine humor with its catchy dialect compatible for viewers throughout Germany. He and the whole crew also enjoyed the fact that a doomsday scenario does not arise in front of a large Hollywood backdrop, as usual, but rather the role of a Palatinate family and their characters are the focus.
Author and inventor Markus B. Altmeyer , who grew up in and around Bad Dürkheim in the Palatinate, presented the series in an interview with the newspaper Die Rheinpfalz as a “self-deprecating declaration of love for home”, in which he was “not about action and the destruction of the world ”, rather than“ the psychological aspects of the characters ”. For him, the end of the world is “not an unrealistic premise, but basically nothing more than a metaphor for mortality itself, because we will all experience our personal end of the world at some point”. But this knowledge does not have to lead to despair, “but can also be converted into joy of life and an ironic attitude towards life. Tragedy and comedy are accordingly close together in the series ”.
Web links
- Pälzisch in the finish on the SWR website
- Pälzisch im Abgang - The end times series on the website of the inventor and screenwriter
- Pälzisch in the finish at Fernsehserien.de
- Pälzisch in the exit in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pälzisch in the finish with TV Movie
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.bilder-upload.eu/show.php?file=09407a-1525464783.jpg
- ↑ Apocalypse Palatinate Art - Delmenhorster Kurier: Your portal of the WESER-KURIER. In: weser-kurier.de. Retrieved November 28, 2015 .
- ↑ Kulturszene · SWR's dialect series was also created in the Neckartailfingen theater gallery - Südwest Presse Online. In: swp.de. Retrieved November 28, 2015 .
- ↑ a b markus b. altmeyer - author: Pälzisch im Abgang - The end time series. In: markusbaltmeyer.blogspot.de. Retrieved November 27, 2015 .
- ↑ 8 million watch the Bayern Gala in the First, “Suddenly War?” Starts unspectacularly ›“ Pälzisch im Abgang ”good. In: meedia.de. Retrieved November 28, 2015 .
- ↑ Series “Pälzisch im Abgang”: Delmenhorst director filmed the end of the world. In: noz.de. Retrieved November 28, 2015 .
- ↑ "Self-deprecating declaration of love for the homeland" - screenwriter Markus B. Altmeyer developed the SWR comedy series "Pälzisch im Abgang" set in Bad Dürkheim. In: Die Rheinpfalz, local edition Bad Dürkheimer Zeitung. Ludwigshafen, July 18, 2015.
